Cell Phone Compliance Regulations – How to $ell a Cell in China/EU/USA

When Apple recently shipped the Iphone 6, it didn’t ship in China. This was because the
phone had received regulatory approval for use on domestic frequencies but still required one more licence – for network access – before it was / will be allowed to be sold in China. At Assent we got an influx of question from our readers about how exactly a company can “sell a cell” into different markets from a compliance perspective. To answer that our regulatory team and our design team came up with the InfoGraph below. While these aren’t all the regulations, these are the major ones cell phone manufacturers have to deal with and their summaries.